Seepia and Outre had an immediate impact on me. Swarth still hasn't grabbed me, but I don't think i have given it enough serious listens yet. It's not the type of record you can listen to while reading and get much out of it. I need to do some driving listens. That's always when I have the clearest head listening to music. Too bad vinyls don't play in the car.

Outre is a great album but really is quite anemic sounding compared to the other two...it has a great sinister ambiance though. I do tend to go for the more immediately vicious other albums first. I still haven't got a copy of The Sweyy ep!!

Portal twist time and again from death metal build to black metal blur to noise rock distortion

No, it's death metal.

That's the number one thing I hate about these hipster 'zines. Nothing can be good unless it's a combination of different genres, because that's what "true art" is. What a load of fucking bollocks.

Hipster anything trying to intellectualize something that is just art and loud and chaos is retarded anyways. They are a band of chaos and audio noise, death and black metal are not supposed to be dissected and intellectualized into some stupid essay format, in fact it's music that should not even be shared at all, just passed from one trusted hand to another and remain unknown to all that feel that need to try and figure it all out like they are on Oprah Winfrey.

Whilst not ever wanting to actually agree with any of the tripe written by Pitchfork, the 'noise rock' tag whilst a bit of a stretch could be applicable if you were to lump someone like Glenn Branca in that genre. There have been moments when seeing Portal live that Mr Branca has been called to mind when the guitars tend to 'chime' together.

The start of this new track sounds a bit more Impetuous Ritual from the riffs.